[BC] Section 115 Reform Act (SIRA) of 2006

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In a message dated 06/07/2006 01:22:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
armtx at mhcable.com writes:

> Let me add a question to this.
>  
>  Because I really don't understand.
>  
>  If you are paying royalties for playing the music.. what does it matter if
>  you bought it or downloaded it????
>  
>  You don't have the CD but you are paying a "rental" for use of the music 
via
>  the royalties you are paying.
>  
>  So the artist and owners of the music are both getting paid.
>  
>  I don't understand how that is theft when payments are being made... then
>  again I'm not a lawyer.

I'd like to second this. Here we are, already shelling out significant sums 
to ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC every month for the privilege of advertising their 
product to our listeners... we get the music, itself, for free from the 
promotors, anyway. I would think that they would *prefer* that station groups share a 
single CD for their music on HD, because that saves them a few $$. Many Record 
Co's are now shifting to an all-digital delivery system, such as the PromoOnly 
MPE. One download can easily "feed" an entire cluster of stations with 
extremely low cost to the promotors.

It would be nice to get a handle on this whole matter, because it does 
adversely affect every one of us that play even as little as one song per month.

Willie...
WFIF